National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and about 2,000 other residents could soon lose their pieces of land and houses in Magere, Wampewo Parish, Kasangati Town Council, Kyadondo County in Wakiso District.
The land, comprised in Block 190 and Block 191, has been under contention over ownership.
In 2020, a one Justine Nakamatte claimed that the land, totalling about 640 acres, belongs to her and that Bobi Wine and others have refused to vacate.
Nakamate claims that she inherited the Magere land from Akula Ssematimba, her great grandfather.
She wants court to issue an order for all ‘illegal occupants’ to vacate and for all titles of the occupants — including high profile politicians like Bobi Wine, and places of worship — to be cancelled, and for all those who have been occupying the land to compensate her.
But the affected occupants had run to court seeking orders for the halting of the hearing of a case in which Nakamatte is seeking to evict them from the land in question.
Now, in what looks like bad news to the thousands of occupants, including Bobi Wine, a High Court judge has rejected an application to block the hearing of Nakamatte’s case.
On January 19, Justice Henry Isabirye Kaweesa ruled that he found no merit in the arguments presented by those seeking to block the hearing of Nakamatte’s application.
Deputy registrar Miriam Ayo Okello read Justice Isabirye’s ruling.
“There is, therefore, no merit in all arguments raised upon which court can base a decision to strike out Civil Suit 711/2020. This application is accordingly dismissed with costs to the respondent,” read the ruling in part.
Bobi Wine and his neighbors now await a decision of court on whether they will be evicted or not.
